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Forty Vickers-Armstrong 16.5/45 guns and twenty twin mounts ordered, first to be completed 10 July 1934 and following mounts at 1 per month until 19 March 1936. 3,000 tons of material provided for work this quarter.

[SIZE=5]APPENDIX A: DETAILED SHIPBUILDING REPORT[/SIZE]

Specifying only slips and docks currently in use. All not mentioned are assumed to be empty.

Sweet Zombie Jesus that's a lot of steel!!! Well that'll teach you to go and break the treaty! And if the situation changes he could always have them sit on the ways for a while with the threat of completion floating over everyone's heads.

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Well that'll teach you to go and break the treaty!

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Laid Down 1 January 1934

... so to me that would mean that when Japan had stayed in the treaty, those ships would still have been laid down. Because of that date, it is impossible that those ships could have been laid down as reaction to Japan's departure of the CT, even if those plans were kept ready somewhere to be used as soon as possible. I would think that realistically it will take a couple of days before things start to roll.
... and at least the announcement of Japan's departure was posted before the Q1 report was posted.

I'll just say that, in the early stages of construction, it would not be impossible to work on plating which could be used to swing either way. A lot of the basic structural elements for a 40,000 ton vs. a 60,000 ton ship would be similar, so the decision could be deferred.

So it might be a 40,000 ton ship, building REALLY slowly. Or it might be a calculation error. Or it might be a 60,000 ton ship. I might be bluffing. It might be none of the above, and actually a five-part prefabricated drilling rig.

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So it might be a 40,000 ton ship, building REALLY slowly. Or it might be a calculation error. Or it might be a 60,000 ton ship. I might be bluffing. It might be none of the above, and actually a five-part prefabricated drilling rig.

That's why I said:

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assuming that that the construction is 'normal'

What I mean is that the 59.4 months is the 'normal' time to build those ships and thuswould indicate +50,000 ton ships.

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Any chance of a peep at these new ships then?

... not only was the announcement of Japan's departure posted before the Q1 report was posted, the new Japanese vessels were posted quickly after the report appeared...
Maybe I should have kept the InO design a secret, but even then, when you look at Japan's report, it's easy to see that those ships would have been well over 45,000 tons.

Ah, so these ships are expected to complete in late 1937? Then they're CT legal, and almost certainly replacements for the QE and R class ships that are coming up for replacement after their 20 years of service. Germany is still somewhat surprised by the size of the wave of production, but not as concerned as it was before this clarification.

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Originally posted by Rooijen10

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Well that'll teach you to go and break the treaty!

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Laid Down 1 January 1934

... so to me that would mean that when Japan had stayed in the treaty, those ships would still have been laid down. Because of that date, it is impossible that those ships could have been laid down as reaction to Japan's departure of the CT, even if those plans were kept ready somewhere to be used as soon as possible. I would think that realistically it will take a couple of days before things start to roll.
... and at least the announcement of Japan's departure was posted before the Q1 report was posted.

Well the various SATSUMA nations did announce their entent to leave the treaty far in advance of Jan. 1st....

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Originally posted by Hrolf Hakonson
Ah, so these ships are expected to complete in late 1937? Then they're CT legal, and almost certainly replacements for the QE and R class ships that are coming up for replacement after their 20 years of service. Germany is still somewhat surprised by the size of the wave of production, but not as concerned as it was before this clarification.

Seems like a covert message for those who wanted to leave the treaty...

"This is our building shedual with the treaty....wanna see it without the treaty?"

With a disclaimer that this is my own musings, and hasn't been discussed with RLBH (much)....

With things the way they are now, I wouldn't be suprised to see the R class going to Oz and the QEs going to Canada, once their treaty-defined 'replacements' near completion. This of course would give the Crown incentive to then build real 'replacements'